GENERAL DESCRIPTION
In the 1990s, Italian firm Sawaya & Moroni produced a range of highly inventive silver tableware designed by leading international architects and designers. This tea and coffee service, with its fragmented crystalline structure, represents a contribution by architect Zaha Hadid. The puzzle-like service disassembles from a tower to a series of irregular rectangles, shardlike elements, and voids, which form the individual vessels in the set. When not in use, these lustrous components can be assembled into a single asymmetrical architectural monolith that cleverly disguises its functions.
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Bonnie Pitman, ed. Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 357.
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Until 2006: Collection of Deedie and Edward W. Rose, Dallas, Texas
From 2006: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
AUDIO ASSETS
- 13310560: UMO. Listen to a gallery talk in Form/Unformed given by Kevin W. Tucker, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design.
- 267026258: UMO. Listen to a gallery talk in Form/Unformed given by Heather Bowling, Digitial Content Coordinator for Decorative Arts.
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- The previous owner of this tea set confessed she donated it to the DMA partially because it is entirely unusable; coffee drips down the sides when one attempts to pour from the coffeepot.
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General Description
In the 1990s, Italian firm Sawaya & Moroni produced a range of highly inventive silver tableware designed by leading international architects and designers. This tea and coffee service, with its fragmented crystalline structure, represents a contribution by architect Zaha Hadid. The puzzle-like service disassembles from a tower to a series of irregular rectangles, shardlike elements, and voids, which form the individual vessels in the set. When not in use, these lustrous components can be assembled into a single asymmetrical architectural monolith that cleverly disguises its functions.
Excerpt from
Bonnie Pitman, ed. Dallas Museum of Art: A Guide to the Collection (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 1997), 357.
Fun Facts
- The previous owner of this tea set confessed she donated it to the DMA partially because it is entirely unusable; coffee drips down the sides when one attempts to pour from the coffeepot.
Archival Resources
Web Resources
Notes
Catalogue essays
Artist/designers
Cultures
Geography
Process/materials
Historical periods
Individuals
Subject terms
RELATED OBJECTS
PROVENANCE
Until 2006: Collection of Deedie and Edward W. Rose, Dallas, Texas
From 2006: Dallas Museum of Art, gift of the above
AUDIO ASSETS
- 13310560: UMO. Listen to a gallery talk in Form/Unformed given by Kevin W. Tucker, Curator of Decorative Arts and Design.
- 267026258: UMO. Listen to a gallery talk in Form/Unformed given by Heather Bowling, Digitial Content Coordinator for Decorative Arts.
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